Book description
In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than
she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than
those who wish her ill can know about. In another palace across the
mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief
bodyguard, too, has his enemies. But his enemies strike more swiftly,
and his means of combating them are more traditional. Spiralling round a
central core of secrecy, deceit, love and betrayal, INVERSIONS is a
spectacular work of science fiction, brilliantly told and wildly
imaginative, from an author who has set genre fiction alight. Iain
Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the
publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in 1984. He has since
gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and
his science fiction novels.
